El Segundo, California, USA– July 1, 2011 - AWR® Corporation, the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA, today announced that the merger with National Instruments, as first announced on May 23, 2011, has now been completed.  As previously announced, AWR will continue to operate as a wholly owned NI subsidiary under the leadership of the existing management team. 

"We are pleased to have progressed through the final phase of this merger with relative ease,” stated Dane Collins, CEO of AWR. "Now we are ready to take advantage of the synergies between AWR’s design validation software and NI’s test and measurement product portfolio to further increase customer productivity and satisfaction.”

About AWR
AWR, the innovation leader in high-frequency EDA software, dramatically reduces development time and cost for products employed in wireless, high-speed wired, broadband, aerospace and defense, and electro-optical applications. For more information, visit http://www.awrcorp.com.

Contact:

Sherry Hess

Vice President of Marketing

AWR Corporation

(310) 726-3000

hess@awrcorp.com